Marker Appraisal Service maintains the highest professional ethics

An appraiser's main responsibility is to their client. Typically, for a normal residential appraisal, the lender (or an agent of the lender) places the order to the appraiser, becoming the appraiser's client. Subsequently, appraisers are privy to a lot of data, and like an attorney, can only discuss many of these matters with their client. As a homeowner, if you want to review an appraisal report, you generally should obtain it through your lender and not the appraiser.

Other obligations include accurate sums appropriate to the parameters of the assignment, acquiring and sustaining an appropriate level of competency and education, and naturally, the appraiser must bear a professional demeanor. Maintaining high ethics is what we do every day at Marker Appraisal Service.

Appraisers may frequently have fiduciary obligations to third parties, such as homeowners, sellers and buyers, or others. Those third parties normally are listed in scope of the appraisal assignment itself. An appraiser's fiduciary role is limited to those parties who the appraiser is aware of, based on the scope of work or other written parameters of the assignment.

	Marker Appraisal Service has worked hard for its reputation for performing appraisals with the highest of ethics. To learn more, contact us.

Appraisers also have rules outside of boundaries of with whom we share information For example, appraisers must keep their work files for at least five years - at Marker Appraisal Service you can rest assured that we stick to that rule.

We meet or exceed the industry standards and mandates set in place for professional behavior. We won't accept anything less from ourselves. Working on orders based on contingency fees is never an option. In other words, we can't agree to do an appraisal report and get paid only if the loan closes. There's a definite conflict of interest if an appraiser can report a greater value and then get paid more money! This isn't how we operate.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice also defines a violation in ethics as accepting of an assignment that is contingent on "the reporting of a pre-determined result (e.g., opinion of value)", "a direction in assignment results that favors the cause of the client", or "the amount of a value opinion" as well as other situations. We diligently follow these rules to the letter which means you can be at ease knowing we are doing everything we can to provide an unbiased determination of the home or property value.

With Marker Appraisal Service, you can be assured of 100 percent ethical, honest service.